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Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of
habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention.
In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of
people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years
photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and
India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal
the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with
each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard. Robert Polidori was
born in Montreal in 1951 and lives in New York City. His work has
been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil,
Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo
Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine
Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts awards in 2007
and 2008. In 2006, Polidori's series of photographs of New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of
Exclusion-Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006),
Parcours Museologique Revisite (2009) and Some Points in Between...
Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl.
The French woodwork purveyor Feau and Cie has supplied architects,
designers, and museums with period paneling since 1875. Featuring
documents, drawings, plaster models, panels, and antique boiserie
rooms, its archive of 25,000 pieces many from the eighteenth
century and Art Deco era is an unrivaled source of inspiration for
re-creating heirloom spaces as well as for constructing spectacular
contemporary pieces. Though the house remains best known for its
magical historic rooms, it has collaborated with architects and
decorators on original projects since its beginnings, and today s
design greats including Michael S. Smith, Brian J. McCarthy, and
Robert Couturier, among others regularly call upon the firm for
elaborate projects. In this first book of the firm s work, Feau and
Cie reveals a selection of its most exceptional projects, from
magnificent historical abodes to daring modern creations, including
a palace in Tuscany and residences in Paris, London, New York,
Malibu, and Atlanta. Dazzling images of finished interiors are
accompanied by details of panels, doors, and decor, while exclusive
photographs by lensman Robert Polidori explore the house s Parisian
atelier. The unique savoir faire of joiners, sculptors, gilders,
and painter-decorators shines through in this visual celebration of
decorative masterpieces, which is bound to delight design masters
and art lovers alike.
Following the reopening of 30 Avenue Montaigne in 2022, this
exquisite volume offers a unique look into the metamorphosis of the
House of Dior s legendary Parisian headquarters via images captured
by acclaimed photographer Robert Polidori. or over two years, the
iconic hotel particulier underwent a radical transformation, during
which Polidori was granted exclusive access to the site for the
entire duration of the restoration documenting the original state,
the demolition phase, and the reconstruction of Dior s couture
house. Registering the past, present, and future of the spaces
within a single frame, Polidori s images capture layers of history
in extraordinary detail. Enriched with archival documents, his
impressive iconography offers an extraordinary visual experience
recorded in one of the nest pieces of bookmaking, beautifully
printed on luxurious European papers.
"Transitional States" is Robert Polidori's attempt to visually
portray aspects of historical revisionism as seen through various
stages of the restoration of the Palace of Versailles. What does it
really mean to restore a room? Is it about the precise duplication
of something which is now showing the wear and tear of its age, to
renew it and make it again as it once was? Or does it involve
entirely redefining the rooms epidermis to a completely different
state, a state that it may once have had in an earlier epoch? The
curatorial decisions that control this process reflect a political
will and esthetic tastes which have altered over the period of the
restoration. Photographed over a period of 25 years, the transient
and temporary situations which the labors of these restorations
afford, present temporal paradoxes that engage layers of history
and power.
Housed in a slipcase, Rio contains the work of two photographers
who portray Rio de Janeiro in a visual dialogue spanning the
centuries. Book One showcases nineteenth-century photographer Marc
Ferrez's classical work on the city where he spent his five-decade
career, from the mid-1860s to the early 1910s, while Book Two
presents a project of Robert Polidori's from the past five years,
in which he photographed Rio, emphasizing its contemporary dynamic
and dense urban configuration. Polidori contextualizes today's Rio
within the natural settings from which the city grew, and which
have defined its iconic international profile throughout history.
This tension between the natural and built environments, also
significant in Ferrez's work, is a defining reference for Rio's
inhabitants and is here beautifully documented in its historic and
present variations. Marc Ferrez (1843-1923) is the most important
Brazilian photographer of the nineteenth century. Ferrez produced a
vast documentation of Rio and its surroundings using specialized
cameras and large-format negatives, including a rotating panoramic
camera. His last large-scale project was the Avenida Central album
(1905), a unique architectural photography series on urban renewal
in Rio in the early 1900s. Robert Polidori (born 1951) was born in
Montreal and today lives in Los Angeles. Polidori received the
World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for
Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000 and Communication Arts awards
in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 Polidori's controversial photographs of
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath were exhibited at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York.
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